Ilpo Kojola

Visiting Specialist
  • Phone number +358295327411
  • Email address ext.ilpo.kojola@luke.fi
  • Address Ounasjoentie 6 96200 ROVANIEMI

The diel niche of brown bears: constraints on adaptive capacity in human-modified landscapes

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Trophic Interactions Are Key to Understanding the Effects of Global Change on the Distribution and Functional Role of the Brown Bear

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Mating from a female perspective: Do brown bear females play an active role in mate searching?

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Does abundant wild prey decrease the risk of wolf damages in sheep farms in Finland?

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Continuing recovery of wolves in Europe

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Large carnivore distribution maps and population updates 2017-2022/23. Report to the European Comission under contract N° 09.0201/2023/907799/SER/ENV.D.3 “Support for Coexistence with Large Carnivores”, “B.4 Update of the distribution maps”

Other publications
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2024

Large carnivore impacts : case study : Northern Finland : large carnivores in the reindeer husbandry area

Other publications
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2024

The use of anthropogenic areas helps explain male brown bear movement rates and distance travelled during the mating season

Refereed scientific publications
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2024

Expanding the spatial scale in DNA-based monitoring schemes: ascertainment bias in transnational assessments

Refereed scientific publications
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2024

Livin' on the edge: reducing infanticide risk by maintaining proximity to potentially less infanticidal males

Refereed scientific publications
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2024

Golden jackal expansion in northernmost Europe: records in Finland

Refereed scientific publications
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2024

The extinct Sicilian wolf shows a complex history of isolation and admixture with ancient dogs

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

Long-term dietary shifts in a generalist predator, the wolverine (Gulo gulo)

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

The management of brown bears in Sweden, Norway and Finland

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

Wolf attacks on hunting dogs are negatively related to prey abundance in Finland: an analysis at the wolf territory level

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

Assessment of the residential Finnish wolf population combines DNA captures, citizen observations and mortality data using a Bayesian state-space model

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Identifying territories using presence-only citizen science data: An application to the Finnish wolf population

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Does prey scarcity increase the risk of wolf attacks on domestic dogs?

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Potential for increased connectivity between differentiated wolverine populations

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Spatial Memory Drives Foraging Strategies of Wolves, but in Highly Individual Ways

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Ain’t Nothing like Family—Female Brown Bears Share Their Home Range with Relatives

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: factors other than age shape brown bear movement patterns

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Calf/female ratio and population dynamics of wild forest reindeer in relation to wolf and moose abundances in a managed European ecosystem

Refereed scientific publications
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2021